Nice responsive behavior keeps that perfect balance across the whole range of internet capable devices. Be it a 4” smartphone, 10” Tablet or a 27” screen this theme will hold its own unique character and content oriented approach.

Appealing Design

"Lovely" has a clean modern layout optimized for SEO with a good measure of neat design accents to make it appealing to the eyes of a modern reader. It goes without saying that it is highly responsive and nicely adapts to screens of all sizes making it easy to navigate and read.

Extra Features

"Lovely" supports a popular WooCommerce shop plugin and features a custom template designed for it. The result, the shop will visually fit perfectly to the rest of the site. Beside custom shop template this theme features 4 additional custom page templates and comes packed with a full blown version of the awesome Soliloquy slider.

]]>http://www.anarieldesign.com/lovely-health-lifestyle-wordpress-theme/feed/0“The Thinker” – WordPress Theme For Modern Bloggerhttp://www.anarieldesign.com/the-thinker-wordpress-theme-for-blogger/
http://www.anarieldesign.com/the-thinker-wordpress-theme-for-blogger/#commentsMon, 05 Jan 2015 11:15:48 +0000http://www.anarieldesign.com/?p=7036Continue reading “The Thinker” – WordPress Theme For Modern Blogger]]>First of all, Anariel Design team wishes you all the best in 2015!
If one of your goals for this year is starting a new blog or changing the looks of your existing one, then "The Thinker" may be the right option for you.

Clean & Responsive Design

"The Thinker" is our latest WordPress theme and it is perfectly simple theme for modern blogger. Clean layout with just the right amount of details and nice responsive design will make your content shine in any situation and across the whole range of internet capable devices.

Features That Matter

If you'd would like to include a small shop on your site "The Thinker" also offers a page template styled for widely used WooCommerce plugin. You just need to setup a gateway and you're ready to roll. Beside the shop, this theme offers 3 custom page templates and includes a full featured Soliloquy slider.
The last, but not least "The Thinker" is fully WPML compatible.

]]>http://www.anarieldesign.com/the-thinker-wordpress-theme-for-blogger/feed/0The Thinker Lite – Free WordPress Themehttp://www.anarieldesign.com/the-thinker-lite-free-wordpress-theme/
http://www.anarieldesign.com/the-thinker-lite-free-wordpress-theme/#commentsTue, 09 Dec 2014 20:25:20 +0000http://www.anarieldesign.com/?p=6861Continue reading The Thinker Lite – Free WordPress Theme]]>“The Thinker Lite” is a perfectly simple blogging theme. It has just enough detail without being flashy and just enough features not to get complicated. Beautiful typography and clean layout are a must for any modern blogger and this is where “The Thinker Lite” excels. It keeps readers focused on the content while creating relaxing environment for the eyes.

Nice responsive behavior keeps that perfect balance across the whole range of internet capable devices. Be it a 4” smartphone, 10” Tablet or a 27” screen this theme will hold its own unique character and content oriented approach.

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]]>http://www.anarieldesign.com/the-thinker-lite-free-wordpress-theme/feed/2Discover & Share With “Explorer” Themehttp://www.anarieldesign.com/discover-share-with-explorer-theme/
http://www.anarieldesign.com/discover-share-with-explorer-theme/#commentsMon, 17 Nov 2014 17:39:06 +0000http://www.anarieldesign.com/?p=6683Continue reading Discover & Share With “Explorer” Theme]]>Are you excited about discovering new things and sharing them with the world? Are you a traveler, fashion fan or cooking aficionado? If just one of these describe you, then you're in the right place.

Versatile WordPress Theme

"Explorer" WordPress theme is a perfect companion for blogging life enthusiasts. Modern design, logical layout and user friendliness bonded with useful features make this theme a well rounded package. The theme offers a couple of different front page versions as well as additional page templates including shop template styled for the WooCommerce plugin.

Modern Responsive Design

"Explorer" is up to date responsive theme and it will present any content in the best possible light across the whole range of internet capable devices. No matter if your readers use a 27" flat screen or a 4" smartphone your content stays nice and clean.

]]>http://www.anarieldesign.com/discover-share-with-explorer-theme/feed/0How to Scan Your WordPress Blog for Broken Linkshttp://www.anarieldesign.com/how-to-scan-your-wordpress-blog-for-broken-links/
http://www.anarieldesign.com/how-to-scan-your-wordpress-blog-for-broken-links/#commentsMon, 27 Oct 2014 08:00:13 +0000http://www.anarieldesign.com/?p=6556Continue reading How to Scan Your WordPress Blog for Broken Links]]>The link becomes 'broken' when it ceases to exist, or function as it should. Typically, it happens after a post has been published for some time, even as far back as a year or two. As a webmaster, you're not really worrying about those broken links, but should you?

There are many reasons for a link to become obsolete. Nowadays, the most common reasons include: website is down, website has been shut down, change of ownership, domain name has been changed and improperly redirected, or perhaps the website has been attacked, and that is causing problems. Any more to add to this?

Broken Links Are Bad for SEO

You can find quite a few articles and columns discussing the negative effects on SEO and overall user experience when it comes to broken links, it doesn't just create a bad browsing experience for those who're looking for valuable content, it also gives the search engines a signal that you may not care as much about your site as others might do.

Broken Pages vs Broken Links

Now, there are two types of broken pages and links, the one is where your own website is not functioning properly and so you need to deal with that, but then there is the second one - where a 3rd-party link within a blog post or an article is broken, which creates just as bad experience.

So, what do we need to do to tackle this problem? I've got three solutions, all can be used at once, or you can just pick one - the one you're most comfortable with - and then take it from there.

1. Link Checker Websites

It's a privilege to be able to use this broken link checking tool for free! Not only is it free, it offers a wide range of features that will help you to analyze up to 3000 pages of your site, blog, or business that you're running. However, there are zero-limits on how many links can be checked on each page separately!

Check Your Website, Blog for Broken Links

Scans Up to 3000 Pages

Checks for Both Internal and External Links (awesome!)

Friendly Output of Where There Are Link Problems

Does Report Error Codes for All Invalid Links (404, etc,.)

Runs on Any Device

these are the main features of this tool, I'm sure you can negotiate premium plans if your website is way bigger than unique 3000 pages!

2. Plugin for Checking Broken Links

This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. The feature that really stands out for me for this plugin is the ability to scan your pages for broken links, and then at the same time - have the ability to edit them from within the plugins page. Such a time saver!

Links can be edited directly from the plugin's page, without manually updating each post.

Highly configurable.

it also comes equipped with a lot of available translation packets, so if you're from a non-English speaking country - you might find that there is a translation available.

3. Google Webmaster Tools

The last method that you can use to check your WordPress blog for broken links is to use Google Webmaster Tools. Basically, Webmaster Tools is a simple report of how the Google search crawler is crawling your site, and if the crawler begins to spot errors - you'll be able to monitor them all within your GWT account! It's free, but I have to agree - it only has that much use, since the crawler doesn't check against broken external links.

How to Scan Your WordPress Blog for Broken Links

I think that is a reasonable amount of tools to explore and play with. The way search engines work is changing rapidly, and the last thing we want to be doing is avoiding to be in compliance of the latest web standards, don't you hate it yourself when you stumble across a broken link? It has happened to me before, even in cases where I've been desperate to find information.

You're more than welcome to share your own methods of checking against broken links, I've heard that there have been cases where webmasters are building a separate script for checking the site through MySQL, and then using another script to check for the status of URL's returned.

]]>http://www.anarieldesign.com/how-to-scan-your-wordpress-blog-for-broken-links/feed/0Top 7 Plugins for bbPress Forum Ownershttp://www.anarieldesign.com/top-seven-plugins-for-bbpress-forum-owners/
http://www.anarieldesign.com/top-seven-plugins-for-bbpress-forum-owners/#commentsMon, 20 Oct 2014 10:21:17 +0000http://www.anarieldesign.com/?p=6492Continue reading Top 7 Plugins for bbPress Forum Owners]]>bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress. You don't see bbPress installed by default on your WordPress blogs, it requires a separate standalone installation, though it's as easy as downloading the plugin and activating it.

Your continuous blogging efforts are driving you great amounts of traffic, you're making some money, and things seem to be doing pretty well for you, but - what about the community aspect of your project? Do you ever long for a place where everyone could discuss their favorite topics, under the supervision of your own rules?

Launching your forum is just steps away, but if you've been a bbPress user for a little while already, and are looking to simply enhance the experience for both yourself, and your community - then keep on reading to learn about some really cool bbPress plugins that are being used by the largest bbPress communities.

If you have ever built a forum before, you'll know how difficult it is to deal with an influx of beginners signing up for your forum, asking their beginner(ish) questions! With this plugin, every time someone is making a new topic, they'll get a list of topics that have similar titles displayed to them - in many cases, saving the user from creating a duplicate post.

You can also try and rely on more traditional methods, like reporting content. Though, in this case, this plugin helps with more than just duplicate posts. Report Content is great if you're dealing with sensitive topics, and feel like at any time people could get into a heated discussion about something. Either way, giving users the ability to report inappropriate content is great.

Spam is one of the most irritating factors. Spam become every year more and conventional anti spam can no longer handle all the spam bots. CleanTalk prevents spam and automatically blocks it. You'll be surprised of effective protection against spam. It's free, and thousands of people have entrusted this plugin already.

Forum signatures have been around since the very early days of forums, it's not just a way of expressing yourself and who you are, it's a way of letting people know that you can help them in ways they didn't realize at first. You can also use it for promotional purposes, but always check with the rules of the forum that you're posting on.

Ratings enabled community members to rate things according to their own liking, you can then use the data submitted by your users to send out weekly or monthly updates on what has been happening on the forum, and perhaps even encourage other newsletter members to signup as well. The star ratings editor allows you to fully customize your ratings and its placement on your blog's layout.

It's a plugin that adds multi-functionality to your forum, here are all the features included:

- BBCode shortcodes support

- Quote Reply or Topic

- User signature with BBCode and HTML support

- Additional custom views

- Basic topics search results view

- Toolbar menu integration

- Limit bbPress admin side access

You can see that this plugin - technically - also provides support for forum signatures, but there are a few other features to take note of, like the ability to enhance the security of your forum by limiting admin access.

The default bbPress installation will fetch user avatars from the Gravatar website, but if you know something about forums - you'll know that people LOVE to upload their own special avatars, as it enhances their freedom on the community. With this plugin, you'll be able to support custom uploaded avatars right away, with all the necessary security functions in place.

Plugins for bbPress Forum Owners

I'd say that bbPress is a great way to experiment with forums, it's a lightweight platform that will work with any WordPress theme (although custom styling is encouraged), and doesn't really get into the way of things when it comes to consuming resources either. But, those who're feeling adventurous - should try using some more larger forum system to get a real feel for building a community that's supported solely by its users.

vBulletin, IPB, Discourse, even phpBB is coming to mind. If you never visited the internet in 2000-2005: too bad for you, that's when the real forum spirit was still alive and kicking, now we're getting more and more social content thrown at us, which doesn't really help with making real communities.

]]>http://www.anarieldesign.com/top-seven-plugins-for-bbpress-forum-owners/feed/0“Girly” A Stylish Blog and Magazine WordPress Themehttp://www.anarieldesign.com/girly-a-stylish-blog-and-magazine-wordpress-theme/
http://www.anarieldesign.com/girly-a-stylish-blog-and-magazine-wordpress-theme/#commentsTue, 14 Oct 2014 08:28:37 +0000http://www.anarieldesign.com/?p=6473Continue reading “Girly” A Stylish Blog and Magazine WordPress Theme]]>There is nothing better for a blogger than to have a great audience. Great audience, however, is always searching for awesome content.... and awesome content needs an eye catching presentation.

Modern Design

"Girly" is a real eye candy! It is a premium WordPress theme whose perfectly balanced modern design elements matched with beautiful typography draw the readers attention to the most important...your content. Its responsive layout assures your content be presented in the best light on any device, be it a desktop, tablet or a smartphone.

Endless Color Options

Customization options, in the back end, make "Girly" a real treat and are easily accessible from the WordPress customizer. Color options are endless and you can literally turn this theme from feminine looking theme to a masculine one in no time.

]]>http://www.anarieldesign.com/girly-a-stylish-blog-and-magazine-wordpress-theme/feed/4Top 5 Plugins to Help You Collect Email Subscribershttp://www.anarieldesign.com/top-five-plugins-to-help-you-collect-email-subscribers/
http://www.anarieldesign.com/top-five-plugins-to-help-you-collect-email-subscribers/#commentsSun, 12 Oct 2014 22:02:40 +0000http://www.anarieldesign.com/?p=6416Continue reading Top 5 Plugins to Help You Collect Email Subscribers]]>Email marketing is the new way of staying in touch with your most loyal visitors. Many marketers talk of email marketing being a great way of mining money, while I believe it's great for both: a) money & b) building relationships. Which one have you given priority to?

WordPress doesn't currently provide features or functionality for you to easily collect your visitors email addresses, so 3rd-party plugins must be used, but don't worry - there are plenty of great alternatives out there, both paid and premium. I'm going to take a close look into both markets, to see what we can come up with.

Having worked on so many projects in the past, it comes as a natural feeling to know that this post will appeal to those solo-entrepreneurs who've worked on something intensely for the past couple of months and/or years. It's time to maximize your potential, so begin collecting those emails that may prove to be very handy one day.

It's the first plugin that I tried when I first began experimenting with email marketing, it definitely lived up to its promise of being an easy plugin to install and setup. The visitors that scroll down far enough have engaged with your content and most likely got some value out of it, making them more receptive to any offer. Also, human eyes react to movement. Having a box "appear" is a sure way to get their attention while staying relatively unobtrusive and certainly less annoying than a pop-up.

It isn't always about the way you present things, but how well you're able to craft your message! I didn't like popups, but then I realized that with new technology - you're able to use 'smart' features that make popups appear in a very friendly manner. PopupAlly allows you to create advanced popup signup forms in under 5 minutes without the need to deal with messy code. You get full freedom over the set of features that this plugin provides, modify it how you like!

We're now entering the premium area of this market, and this is also where most of the 'cool' plugins find their home. Technically, SumoMe is a free email marketing plugin, but if you'd like to remove the 'Icon on Sidebar' that shows to everyone, it will cost you ten dollars to have that removed. And why shouldn't you remove it? The guys at SumoMe have built an amazing product, watch those email subscribers rise to the top!

OptinMonster is the new kid on the block, these guys have been in the market for a very short few months, but have managed to capture the attention of many large blogs, and individuals who find the plugin to be the answers to their prayers. Imagine having the power to turn your website visitors into subscribers and customers. OptinMonster enables you to create professionally designed optin forms without writing a single line of code in 60 seconds flat.

Pippity is known as the people-pleasing popup plugin! The original message behind Pippity is to provide publishers with easy enough to use tools for creating popups that respect peoples time and privacy. Just like some of the plugins in our list already, Pippity is also focusing on showing their popups only when the built-in smart tools feel the popup needs to be shown, making for a more tailored experience!

It doesn't stop there, either. Pippity comes equipped with 18 pre-built themes, all of which can be further modified and played around with. It doesn't matter if you want to create a popup box or opt-in bar, Pippity can do it all! What's more, Pippity will allow you to test two different popup forms at the same time, giving you all the A/B testing power you need!

Plugins to Help You Collect Email Subscribers

If you must know, then the two absolute favorites from this list for me would be; SumoMe, and Scroll Triggered Boxes. Why? Well, both are free(ish), and by the looks of it - the developers behind both plugins understand how modern technology is evolving, allowing for popups to be displayed on multiple devices.

You can easily try them all if you like, they aren't even that expensive, and if I'm not mistaken - then each one provides a free trial before having you commit for good. Check them all out, see which ones provide a similar style theme to yours, and then go ahead - start collecting those emails!

]]>http://www.anarieldesign.com/top-five-plugins-to-help-you-collect-email-subscribers/feed/015 Healthy Tips for Boosting Your WordPress SEOhttp://www.anarieldesign.com/fifteen-healthy-tips-for-boosting-your-wordpress-seo/
http://www.anarieldesign.com/fifteen-healthy-tips-for-boosting-your-wordpress-seo/#commentsMon, 06 Oct 2014 06:17:17 +0000http://www.anarieldesign.com/?p=6278Continue reading 15 Healthy Tips for Boosting Your WordPress SEO]]>The SEO world is taking many turns, in the most recent news - Google decided to cut the oxygen to one of their most talked about features: Google Authorship. It was the little feature that added your photo to Google search results, whenever your relevant content would come up.

It's not like everyone believes it is gone for good, but for some stranger reason - I always felt this would happen. It just didn't seem right, and when the images finally disappeared, I didn't bother questioning the decision, or writing a huge article on how big of a mistake Google has made. It's just the way it is.

Google Authorship was great for SEO, but there are hundreds of other things to consider when it comes to optimizing your WordPress blog for the search engines, today I'd like to quickly go over some of the most important subjects that come to my mind when I think WordPress SEO.

1. Permalinks

It's vital to have a good permalink structure, Google takes this aspect very seriously and it does make your URL's look a lot more pretty as well. You can modify the settings from within your WordPRess Settings page, and I recommend to use the same settings that you see in the snapshot, they're the most common types of permalinks!

2. XML Sitemap

You should always have a plugin that can take care of generating sitemaps. It's the one method that crawlers use to better understand your blog and website in general. If you use a SEO plugin like the one built by Yoast, it already comes equipped with a great sitemap feature.

3. Cache Your Blog

Having your website load in 10 seconds instead of 2 seconds can make a big change in your search rankings, a few years back - Moz took the time to answer the common misconceptions about sites speed, and how to better approach it. I say that using a caching plugin is a great place to start, and it will significantly increase your websites performance.

4. Try a CDN

A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a large distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers across the Internet. The goal of a CDN is to serve content to end-users with high availability and high performance.

You'll find many services that provide CDN solutions, you can preview some of them in this article.

5. Block Out Spam

By default, WordPress comes installed with an spam-protection plugin called Akismet. It's important that you activate this plugin, so as to block out any unnecessary spam comments, or comments from people who're looking to get only links back to their own blogs.

6. Interconnect Your Blog

SEO is a lot about how you show your site to the search engine, does he find it easy to crawl and navigate? By connecting your posts one trough another, you're giving search engines a better view of your site, and how it comes together as a whole, not just a few articles. Link back to content from your new articles, and vice versa.

7. Emphasize Great Content

If you haven't used a popular posts widget before, it might be a good time to start. By emphasizing your most read content, your telling search engines to take those pages more seriously, to crawl them more often and as well as to give them more credit in the rankings. It has an immense effect.

8. Optimize Your Images

The smaller the images, the quicker the site is going to load, and the quicker the site loads - the better your rankings are going to be. It sounds very simple, and believe me when I say it is. All you're required to do is to take the time to optimize all your images for a better experience. Not everyone can afford expensive broadband.

9. Healthy Post Titles

Learning to craft great blog post titles is going to net you some long-term traffic and benefits. Don't write for search engines, write for the user. Write in a way where a user would be looking for an answer to something, and your perfectly crafted blog post title has the exact answer to that question - whatever it may be. Online reading upon this subject might be necessary.

10. Regular Content Updates

You don't have to write 10 posts a day. Just one new article per day is going to be much better than one article every two days, but never sacrifice quality for quantity. If you're capable of producing only one post per week, but feel like it is going to be read by several thousand - then by all means settle for such strategy.

I just know that frequent content updates gives search engines a signal that you're in it for the long-term, not just a few articles and then disappear.

11. Grow Your Brand

Take all these little advice tips and use them to grow your brand, never settle for one method of doing this - at some point, that method is going to run out of juice, and better to be prepared for changes, than to hope everything's going to work itself out.

Healthy Tips for Boosting Your WordPress SEO

I hope I've inspired you to take action in the right direction. If you'd like to share personal experience stories of how you succeeded at WordPress SEO, then please share them with us so that everyone can learn and find out more about this enormous subject.